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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. (Princess Margaret )
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. (Princess Margaret )
That government is best which governs least. (Princess Margaret )
This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. (Princess Margaret )
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man. (Princess Margaret )
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound. (Princess Margaret )
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. (Princess Margaret )
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. (Princess Margaret )
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. (Princess Margaret )
We have the best government that money can buy. (Princess Margaret )
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. (Princess Margaret )
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. (Princess Margaret )
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. (Princess Margaret )
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Princess Margaret )
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. (Princess Margaret )
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work. (Princess Margaret )
Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (Princess Margaret )
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. (Princess Margaret )
The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. (Princess Margaret )
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country. (Princess Margaret )
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. (Princess Margaret )
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